How to Succeed As a Leader

Sun Myung MoonFebruary 4, 1987Leaders' ConferenceEast
Garden

Introduction

The day after True Parents' Birthday, Father invited all the state
leaders, some of the international leaders, and other church elders
to East Garden -- altogether about 200 people.

Addressing the new state leaders, many of whom had never been to
East Garden before, Father spoke in a loving and caring way about how
the leader's role is that of a parent.

Afterwards, Dr. Pak read excerpts from birthday wishes that True
Parents had received from all over the world. Among them were
greetings from famous American Christian leaders who conveyed their
admiration and respect to Father and Mother as well as their renewed
hope in America.

One of these leaders expressed his sincere gratitude that, at a
time when the destiny of America and the world is being decided, "God
sent Rev. Moon to us." His message went on: 'America is ready
for a second revolution, one of character and America has lost its
great ideal but will recapture it.... On behalf of the unnamed
millions of Americans who don't know this now, I want to express my
heartfelt thanks."

Another leader wrote, "The greatest thing America did is
liberate you from the North Korean prison.... You are like another
Lafayette, bringing a new spirit of freedom to this country...taking
the nation of America to new heights.... Just like a Moses, you are
fighting for America and being persecuted for the cause of
freedom...."

While listening to Dr. Pak read these messages, Father smiled, but
it seemed he was passing the glory on to God.

Needless to say, everyone else felt uplifted and happy to hear
such words of recognition for our True Parents' life work.

The conference then closed with a few more comments from Father,
and the state leaders spent the rest of the dais to ether on an
outing.

Because of the change of personnel among the state leaders and
regional coordinators, this is a new team. We will begin the New Year
with a new program. Why have these changes been made? So far, the
state leaders did not have the correct concept of what state
leadership is all about. State leaders are in the parent's position,
and your primary job is to raise the members. The parent's role is
one of leadership: You must guide the members, show them the best
example, and protect and educate them until they grow in faith to
become truly independent leaders themselves. After evaluating the
past, however, I have come to the conclusion that 80 percent of the
state leaders could not even come close to reaching the full
potential of their assigned role.

In the Unification Church we have to go the way of indemnity in
order to create the foundation for victory; the foundation doesn't
just appear automatically. You know the word indemnity, but you don't
know its real meaning. You don't understand its full implications,
nor its true goal and purpose. Yet you have to learn this content
clearly.

Why should we have to set conditions of indemnity at all? Simply
because of Satan. Satan exists and acts all around us; he has been
the principal governor of history. Unless you can successfully
separate yourself from Satan, there is no room for God to enter into
your heart. Therefore, this is the most important thing in
dispensational history.

Two Phases of Restoration

The course of the fall had two major phases: The first was the
fall of Adam and Eve -- the vertical phase; the second was when Cain
dominated his brother Abel and slew him -- the horizontal phase. In
order to restore mankind's original sinless condition, a
representative of true Adam must appear. That person must pay
indemnity for the sin of Adam and make him whole again. First,
indemnity must be paid for the position of Adam to be restored
vertically. Then, however, the conflict of Cain and Abel will
inevitably appear, and the one who stands in Adam's position must
then also pay indemnity to restore his position horizontally.

How did Adam come to fall? First of all, he did not fulfill the
responsibility God gave him, thereby departing from God and becoming
totally unrelated to Him. Thus fallen Adam lost the realm of
responsibility. Second, as a consequence, Adam lost the love of God,
thereby losing the realm of love as well. In order for you to restore
these lost realms, you must become a representative of true,
perfected Adam and pay the indemnity in these two areas. Original
human responsibility has to be restored and the lost realm of the
love of God has to be restored.

Satan has stolen and isolated the realms of responsibility and
true love; he is always setting obstacles to try to prevent us from
reaching them. In a fierce way he doesn't want to be subjugated or
forced to release his hold. Therefore you have to wage the battle and
overcome adverse conditions again and again before Satan will move
out of your path and surrender. You have to be absolutely firm and
unchanging in your determination and penetrate both the indirect and
direct dominion on your way. When you reach those lost realms, the
position of the original Adam will be restored.

So the rule is absolutely clear: First, you must set the vertical
condition to fulfill your human portion of responsibility, and
second, you must reach out firmly to others with the love of God.
When you secure your position this way, Satan has no way to
destabilize you. Responsibility and love will form an invincible
shield that Satan simply cannot deal with.

Everywhere around us -- in the church and in the communities we
work in -- whenever someone takes the central position, Cain and Abel
factions appear, competing to reach the central point where God's
love resides. There is always this division. In the central position,
as Adam, you must try to raise up fallen Adam; as Abel, you must try
to raise up Cain. In restoration there is Adam, and Abel; one
position is vertical, the other is horizontal. In many cases, one and
the same person performs both of these roles.

Work On Both Roles

Restoring the relationship between Cain and Abel is the horizontal
and external avenue of paying indemnity. Once you are victorious on
the external level, you can automatically be restored vertically and
internally into your position as true Adam or Eve. You have to work
along both avenues -- the vertical as well as the horizontal. For
example, if you are attacked in your position from the standpoint of
Abel, you can work from the standpoint of Adam or Eve -- from the
base of the parent's position, secured by the love and trust between
you and God. Thus, when the roles of Adam and Abel are working
harmoniously together, there can always be a quicker result -- a
quicker victory over Satan. You must apply the principle to separate
from Satan on the internal level, restoring the role of Adam and Eve,
and on the external level, restoring the proper order between Cain
and Abel.

Ever since the coming of Jesus Christ, the world has been
polarized horizontally between Abel-type, Christian forces and
Cain-type, secular forces. Throughout the last 2,000 years, the
Christian realm has been struggling and winning the world. However,
Jesus is in a parental role only spiritually and symbolically.
Therefore, our world has been awaiting the Second Advent, when a
visible, parental central figure will appear. By completely
consummating human responsibility and uniting with God, the Messiah
will link the indirect to the direct dominion centering on true love
and thus secure absolute vertical victory. On that foundation, the
horizontal victory of Cain and Abel will be automatic. That is the
formula. So far, the teaching of this formula has been vague; even
your leaders didn't understand it clearly, and the movement has
suffered some confusion as a result.

After you secure the parental role, then step down into Abel's
position and sacrifice for the salvation of Cain. What is most
important, however, is for you to first establish yourself by uniting
with and centering upon True Parents. The vertical consummation of
human responsibility and the establishment of the parental role has
to be the priority. As state leaders you represent restored Adam at
the state level, You must stand in the parent's position with the
true love of God, teaching my tradition to all the members of your
state. When you make such a firm vertical foundation, there will be
no room for Satan to come in. You can completely separate from Satan
and expand God's territory. Then you will be in a position to
dominate the Cain and Abel dispensation, and win more and more Cains
to God's side. Your membership will grow and your local church will
become larger and larger.

You must apply this formula on every level of the eight stages of
development: externally from the individual to the family, clan,
tribal, national, world, and cosmic levels; and internally from the
servant of servants' position to the servant's, adopted son's,
stepson's, son's, mother's, and father's position; finally leading up
to the level and the position of God Himself.

The Formula For Victory

I have completed this dispensation, having totally fulfilled this
formula of human responsibility. Satan has no say about it; there is
no condition for Satan to exercise his power, so the victory is
absolutely protected. I have walked this course from the very bottom,
beginning from the servant of servant's position, and I served in
every successive position. Later I helped Mother to fulfill her role,
so the mother's position has also been restored. Then I could come
into the position of restored Adam and True Parent. In laying this
foundation, level by level, Satan has to be conquered every step of
the way; otherwise it is utterly impossible to reach all the way to
the parents' level.

When you lecture the Principle, you should emphasize this formula
very clearly. The purpose of the internal process of separation from
Satan is to gain the parents' position and stand as restored Adam and
Eve. If you follow this pattern in total obedience to True Parents --
by fulfilling your human portion of responsibility, reclaiming the
true love of God, and becoming installed in the parents' position --
Satan will be separated from you. He will no longer have any claim,
and you will have laid the cornerstone of the foundation for victory.
Then the external process of separation from Satan will follow
through the horizontal dispensation of Cain and Abel, which will
restore the true son's position.

Everything in the Messiah's dispensation has been based on the
principle of internal and external separation from Satan. Here in the
United States I have fulfilled those conditions of separation. I have
consummated, and am installed in, the position of True Parent and
Abel, where Satan has no power. Therefore, when external powers like
the U.S. government and internal religious powers attack and
persecute me, I am not afraid -- even imprisonment will not affect
me.

Set The Correct Standard

Now all you new leaders, as second sons, have moved up into first
place, haven't you? The second has become the first. Through you I
would like to set the correct standard. Can you just sit down and ask
the members to go out and fundraise to bring in the money, and then
just spend it? What type of leadership is that? From this time on I
will not tolerate that kind of behavior on the part of the leaders. I
have been setting the tradition, and you should follow it, so how can
you sit idly and rest? Begin from the servant of servant's position
-- do the work yourself! These are my words to you -- "Get up
and get out:' You cannot just jump all the way to the top but must
sweat each step of the way. But I don't want you to think that you
are below me: I want you to stay at the front line by my side.

Now we are once again going to apply the strategy of using both
vertical and horizontal indemnity conditions to separate from Satan.
Now that you are in the Abel group, will you help those in the Cain
group or reject them? If you say, "Oh, they are Cain, and I am
Abel you are being the most foolish leader you can be. I am asking
you to work hard to gain the respect of your Cains. The time will
come when you can humbly say, "Yes, I am Abel" How? By
first having absolute faith in God and fulfilling your human portion
of responsibility 100 percent, and second, by obtaining the love of
God. You are Abel. That means that you should be totally united with
True Parents and inherit True Parents' goal as your own.

Actually, for you truly to be Abel, you must learn Korean. When I
speak my deepest thoughts to you, you just open your eyes and stare
-- nothing reaches your ears. After 1991 I will no longer have an
interpreter, so you will have to be able to understand me directly.

Now I am going to ask you one last time: Do you correctly
understand the vertical condition of indemnity and the horizontal
condition of indemnity? Are these something that you would just like
to have, or are they an absolute necessity? They are a necessity --
no question about it. Set the vertical condition, then do the
horizontal work. If you follow this principle, the church will boom.

Be Willing To Jump Right In

From now on there is not too much out there to hold the
Unification Church back. This is the golden harvest time: All the
crops are ready to be brought in. All you have to do is go out to the
fields to harvest them. If you don't go out harvesting, you will just
inherit hell.

Whatever your mission is, be willing to get right down to it.
Begin with the servant of servant's position; then you will be
elevated to the servant's position, adopted son's, stepson's, son's,
mother's and father's position. Then you will enter into the parent's
position and the parent's role. Now that you know this, you shouldn't
need any more words from me, because that's all there is to it: I
have taught you the essence of the Principle.

Don't ever complain. If you say, "Oh, I am so hungry. Please
God -- somebody -- give me some food!" Satan will just laugh at
your attitude. Just go and get your food! When mealtime comes,
instead of thinking, "Oh, I love to eat," you might regret
that you have to take the time to eat at all and think that mealtime
is your enemy. Do you say, 'American law only requires eight hours of
labor a day, from nine to five, so that's all I'll do"? I myself
feel that 24 hours in a day is not enough! I wish each day could be
48 or 56 hours long so that I could do more -- each day is so
precious. This is an emergency time, and every day is crucial. I
usually don't have time to eat.

Unless you lay the foundation while you are on the face of the
earth, your life is a lie, and you will be in trouble in the spirit
world. Where did the fall of man take place? In the spirit world or
on the earth? On the earth. Then where should restoration come? On
the earth. That's why I want to remain here.

Up until now, clouds of confusion have been flying around the
Unification Church, blocking the rays of sunlight. Have your minds
cleared? Do you want to place last among the 50 states, or do you
want to win the championship? Those who want to have the best record
of faith, raise your hands! All right, do it! I want all 50 states to
be winners. Then I will ask each state leader to connect to one
nation of the world, and we will raise up 50 nations. When you think
about it that way, world restoration is not at all far away.